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What do you think of when you think of rest ? Now remember the word is both a verb, and a noun. As a verb the word is defined as: REST cease work or movement in order to relax, refresh oneself, or recover strength. “He needed to rest after the feverish activity.” be placed or supported so as to stay…

Hebrews 4:1-13 Last Monday morning I drove up to Mikado, to the McGuire Farm for a week of studying and prayer. I was all prepared with food to cook, for when I wasn’t fasting, clothes to wear, books to read and everything I needed to get my planning done. I got to the farm, and parked…got out of the…

Hebrews Main Text. Hebrews 5 “For every high priest is taken from among the people and appointed to represent them before God, to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. He is able to deal compassionately with those who are ignorant and erring, since he also is subject to weakness, and for this reason…

Rest Peace What is it? How can we get it? physical comfort? psychological counseling? Religious activity? Is rest eternal salvation? Is rest when we get in the future when we are with the Lord? Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “ Today if you hear His voice , Do not harden your hearts as when…

Is God like us? It is part of the world infected with sin that mankind makes God in our image. Most people’s conception of God is that He is like us only a little stronger and a little smarter than we are. The passage before us today could seem to suggest that God is indeed like us, after all here we…

The Daily Grind Each day you wake up. You go through your morning routine. And then you get stuck into the jobs you have for the day. If you’re lucky, they might be pleasant enough tasks. Maybe it’s a paid job. Maybe you’re in retirement but you still have all those jobs in front of you. Regardless of…

Hebrews Hebrews 3 “Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, partners in a heavenly calling, take note of Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess, who is faithful to the one who appointed him, as Moses was also in God’s house. For he has come to deserve greater glory than Moses, just as the builder…

Exodus 20:8-11 Hebrews 4:1-11 We have been going through and teaching about the Ten Commandments and their New Testament reiterations, and expansions. The New Testament has something to say about each of these Laws. We started by looking at God’s Law to Love God the Most - I am the Lord thy God which…

The oxford dictionary on Google defines solitude as: “The state or situation of being alone A lonely or uninhabited place” Thought technically, solitude means to be alone, christian solitude holds a different truth The truth that we are never alone Solitude for the christian is the opposite, it is getting…

1 Samuel 20:18-42 and Genesis 1:14-16 Review We are starting a new cycle of Torah readings We have taught from the Torah portions directly for the last 3 years We will dedicate this new cycle to the teaching of every Haftarah that accompanies every Torah Portion in the cycle If we were to think about…

“Be Reconciled to God” Root of Fruit Sin addressed “Unbelief, Pride, Selfishness” Gathering - Community Announcements Fires / Families / Prayer Disaster Relief / Help for families Love offering / Mark Anderson/Denum Dad Passing Cleanup/ New Member class Call to Worship Saving Faith By this faith Christians…

Isaiah 58-59 Good evening church! So glad you came tonight to join us through this journey through Isaiah. Let’s pray… Show us what you have for us, purify our ways, that we would honor You and bless You. 1 “Cry aloud, spare not; Lift up your voice like a trumpet; Tell My people their transgression,…

Hebrews 3-4 Good morning Church! We are biting off a big chunk this morning, but I think it will make more sense if we do... rather than break it up over a couple of weeks. So, a couple of things about the book of Hebrews first. It was written to actual Hebrews. Again Hebrews that had come to know Jesus…

As we are studying the book of Hebrew, I want to remind you that the underlying theme of Hebrews is that God wants us to go all the way with Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is superior in every way. First of all, Beware of the Danger of neglecting your salvation. 1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest…

1 Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. 3 He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature,…

Cipher: Keyword cipher is a form of monoalphabetic substitution. A keyword is used as the key, and it determines the letter matchings of the cipher. Keywords for reading maps. Have you ever tried to read a map with out the key that explains what all those funny looking symbols mean. Most everyone knows…

Isaiah 63 Jesus echos the words of the prophet Isaiah in: 16 He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, 17 and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where…

4 For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works” ; 5 and again in this place: “They shall not enter My rest.” 6 Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because…

6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: And the government shall be upon his shoulder: And his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, Upon the throne of…

This is our 3rd week in the teaching portion of our EMPTY acronym, our flyover of the New Testament. It’s a 40,000 foot flyover, but its giving us a sense of the overarching message of redemption and seeing the connections of the New Testament back to the Old, and the flow of the story from Genesis on.…

1 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. 2 For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened. 3 For we who…

1 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. 2 For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened. 3 For we who…

Perhaps you have seen them, the signs popping up all over Greene County attempting to encourage young people struggling with suicidal and addictive thoughts. One in particular caught my attention the other day; it read, “You are Enough”. This short phrase perfectly sums up the spirit of our age. That…

Today’s message is really part 2 of where we left off from last week. These messages go together, so if you were not here last week, go back and listen to the message. It will help you see how these two text’s fit together.. The title of our message today is, “Find your rest in God’s Salvation.” Turn…

Hebrews 4:1-13 Good morning and welcome once again to this gathering of Hope Bible Fellowship. I’m honored to get to stand before you each week and proclaim the Word of God. Have you had a long week? Maybe it’s been a long year and you feel like you’ve been just kind of wandering around going from issue…